Weird 2003 SBS Server Timeouts (30000 milliseconds) waiting for a transaction response

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From: Peter Lagges (plaggs_at_on.aibn.com)
Date: 03/12/04 

Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 20:20:47 -0500

Hope someone can help on this one.

A new Compaq Server running two months now. SBS 2003 c/w all updates (I
mean all! )RAID 5, 512 Mb of RAM, 2.8 Xeon. Server hangs like clockwork
serveral times a day hanging all clients for a minute or so then it comes
back.

This is what I have discovered over the week of troubleshooting. I
consistently get about 6 errors in the system event log all event ID 7011
when it temporarily hangs.

1) Timeout (30000 milliseconds) waiting for a transaction response from the
NtFrs service.
2) Timeout (30000 milliseconds) waiting for a transaction response from the
Norton AntiVirus Server service.
3) Timeout (30000 milliseconds) waiting for a transaction response from the
GFI POP2Exchange service.
4) Timeout (30000 milliseconds) waiting for a transaction response from the
DHCPServer service.
5) Timeout (30000 milliseconds) waiting for a transaction response from the
Norton AntiVirus Server service.
6) Timeout (30000 milliseconds) waiting for a transaction response from the
GFI POP2Exchange service.

These are pretty consistent and sometimes different services come up instead
of those shown. And right before all this happens I get and Information
Event ID 119 - The driver for device \Device\Harddisk0\DR0 delayed
non-paging Io requests for 218 ms to recover from a low memory condition.

Another item to note is
The inetinfo.exe process is allocating more memory than usual. The following
services are hosted by this process: IISAdmin, POP3SVC, RESVC, and SMTPSVC.

This process is running really high from 96000K to 120000K with no traffic
on the server

Has anyone experienced this or have any recommendations on how to further
troubleshoot.? It has just gotten worst over time.

Help much appreciated.

Regards

Peter

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